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oHAnLns n. Loire,` or LOUISVILLE,'KE'NTUoKrj Letters Patent No. 98,783, dated .Tenue/ry 11, 187 0,

`IMPROVEIII) CHAIR.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all w'hom it may concern:

Beit known that LCHARLES R. LONG, of Louisville, in the county of J etTerson, and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and improved Chair; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the ait to make and use the same, reference being had t0 the accompanying drawings, forming partl of this specification, iu which- 'Figure 1 isfa vertical section of a chair, to which my improved sea-t has'been applied, the same being taken through the line a; x, fig. 2.

Figure 2 isa top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.. t

` My inventionrelates to improvements in chairs, having special reference tothe seats thereof; and

The invention consists in the scat, constructed as hereinafter specified` A are the posts, Br C DY the lrounds, and O D the stretchers of a chair frame, stretchers C being so placed as tobe an inch, more or less, lower than the The seat E is a double seat woven around a frame, which is nearly rectangularin forni, and may be made of cane, rattan, oak, ash, or hickory' splits, or of flags, rushes, or any other suitable material, which may be woven double around a' frame.

The ends of the bars that form the frame of the chair-seat, are securely jointed, dovetailed, tenoned, or otherwise firmly and strongly secured to each other. This seat being double, and the same in construct-ion on both sides, it is adapted to be turned when worn, soiled, or injured on one of its Siders, thus ei'ecting an economical result.

lhe seat-frames of each size and style of chair are all made from the same pattern, so that any seat will fit any frame, of the particular size or style of chair for which it is adapted, so that each seat doesnot have to be made for and fitted to its own chair-frame.

The seat- E is placed upon the front and back rounds or stretchers C, between the side rounds or stretchers D, and is secured to the rounds .C by f'our screws passed through the corners of the frame of the seat E, and into or through the said rounds C. I

By this construction, the seat greatly streugthdns the chair,` and may be easily attached and detached, even by one unskilled in mechanical operations.

This construction enables the seats, when worn, to be convenient-ly detached from the chair-rames and boxed and sent to the factory to have new seats ,woven upon the frames.

-Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure Patent- The detachable double seat E, constructed and adaptedto be applied 'to chairs, as shown and described.

rlhe above specication of my invention, signed by me, this 1st day `of November, 1869.

CHARLES R. LONG.

oy Letters Witnesses W. G. LONG, J. N. LONG. 

